Crime report for March 1

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Posted Mar. 1, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Updated Mar 1, 2011 at 1:13 AM

Posted Mar. 1, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Updated Mar 1, 2011 at 1:13 AM

Listed information, including addresses, has been gathered from arrest and incident reports publicly available at area law enforcement agencies. If your name appears here and your case was dismissed or you were cleared of a crime, let us know by calling City Editor Dave Sereno at 330-580-8317, or by e-mailing newsroom@cantonrep.com.

ALLIANCE

DRUG ARRESTS Police seized about 13 pounds of marijuana and arrested two people at an Alliance home Monday afternoon. Michael R. Serafin, 22, of 658 S. Arch Ave, and Koneca C. Gilmore, 27, of Youngstown, were arrested at 2:21 p.m. Monday at Serafin’s home and booked into the Stark County Jail on a charge of marijuana trafficking, jail records said. The shipment of marijuana had been picked up at Serafin’s home and was being taken to an undisclosed location outside the city.

VIOLENCE ARREST Kory R. Kaiser, 20, of 22763 Alden Ave., was arrested at 6:31 p.m. Monday at a home in the 600 block of Garfield Street on charges of domestic violence and disrupting public services. He was accused of keeping a woman from calling police after striking her in the head, choking her and punching her, injuring her ribs.

CANTON

ARREST Hester L. Chapman, 52, of 1002 Second St. NW, Apt. 10, was arrested at 4:39 a.m. Tuesday at the jail on two counts of felonious assault on a peace officer after she attacked two jail housing officers while she was being placed in a housing cell. The charge is a first-degree felony punishable upon conviction by a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Chapman was already in the jail on a misdemeanor theft warrant for which she was arrested by Canton Police at 8:03 p.m. on State Street.